For almost three years since 9/11 independent
researchers have stockpiled individual smoking guns which prove that the
official version of events was not only a lie but operationally impossible.

However, no single smoking gun has yet been
forwarded to explain why air defenses categorically reversed Standard
Operating Procedure and failed to respond to hijacked jetliners.

Until now. More and more individuals are
looking at the facts and highlighting exercise drills that took place on the
morning of 9/11.

It is clear that at least five if not six
training exercises were in operation in the days leading up to and on the
morning of 9/11. This meant that NORAD radar screens showed as many as 22
hijacked airliners at the same time. NORAD had been briefed that this was part
of the exercise drill and therefore normal reactive procedure was forestalled
and delayed.

The large numbers of 'blips' on NORAD screens
that displayed both real and 'drill' hijacked planes explain why confused
press reports emerged hours after the attack stating that up to eight planes
had been hijacked.
Click here for that article.

The drill scenario also explains a comment
made by air traffic control personnel which was featured in a July 2004 BBC
television report.
Click here for that video clip and article. The controller is told that a
hijacked airliner is heading for New York and responds by saying, "is this
real world or an exercise?"

Alex Jones was one of the first to highlight
the wargames in his documentary film 'Masters of Terror', which was released
in August 2002.
Click here to watch a video clip. Alex explains why the
Associated Press later had to admit the fact that the CIA were running
drills of crashing planes into buildings on the morning of 9/11.

What were the drills called and what was
their nature?

1) OPERATION NORTHERN VIGILANCE: This was
planned months in advance of 9/11 and ensured that on the morning of 9/11, jet
fighters were removed from patrolling the US east coast and sent to Alaska and
Canada, therefore reducing the amount of fighter planes available to protect
the east coast.

2) BIOWARFARE EXERCISE TRIPOD II: Alex Jones
first reported on this back in May when Rudolph Giuliani let the details of it
slip in his testimony to the 9/11 Commission. FEMA arrived in New York on
September 10th to set up a command post located at Pier 29 under the auspices
of a 'biowarfare exercise scheduled for September 12. This explains why Tom
Kenney of FEMA's National Urban Search and Rescue Team,
told Dan Rather of CBS News that FEMA had arrived in New York on the night
of September 10th. This was originally dismissed as a slip of the tongue.
Giuliani was to use this post as a command post on 9/11 after he evacuated WTC
Building 7. As we
reported back in January, Giuliani knew when to leave WTC 7 because he got
advanced warning that the Trade Towers were about to collapse. "We were
operating out of there when we were told that the World Trade Center was gonna
collapse," Rudolph Giuliani told Peter Jennings of ABC News. How did Giuliani
know the towers were about to collapse when no steel building in history had
previously collapsed from fire damage?

3) OPERATION VIGILANT GUARDIAN: This exercise
simulated hijacked planes in the north eastern sector and started to coincide
with 9/11. Lt. Col. Dawne Deskins, NORAD unit's airborne control and warning
officer, was overseeing the exercise. At 8:40am she took a call from Boston
Center which said it had a hijacked airliner. Her first words, as quoted by
Newhouse News Service were, "It must be part of the exercise." This is another
example of how the numerous drills on the morning of 9/11 deliberately
distracted NORAD so that the real hijacked planes couldn't be intercepted in
time.

4) OPERATION NORTHERN GUARDIAN: The details
of this exercise are still scant but it is considered to be part of Vigilant
Guardian, relating to simulating hijacked planes in the north eastern sector.

5) OPERATION VIGILANT WARRIOR: This was
referenced in Richard Clarke's book 'Against All Enemies'. It is thought to
have been the 'attack' component of the Vigilant Guardian exercise.

Another example of how air defenses were
purposefully kept preoccupied so they couldn't protect New York was
reported by this website in December of 2003. The Air National Guard's
177th Fighter Wing, based at Atlantic City International Airport in Pomona,
were just eight minutes away from New York and could have intercepted both
Flight 11 and Flight 175.

Under NORAD procedures that date to the Cold
War, two F-16 fighters from the 177th were parked around the clock on the
Atlantic City runway. Pilots waited in a nearby building, ready to scramble.

But on the morning of 9/11, the F-16's were
performing bombing runs over an empty stretch of the Pine Barrens near
Atlantic City after being decommissioned from their usual role of protecting
the skies of the east coast.

It was only after both trade towers were hit
that the two F-16s landed and were refitted with air-to-air missiles, then
sent aloft.

Now that we have established how NORAD were
confused, delayed and distracted by the numerous wargames, the next question
to ask is who if anyone was aware of which planes were 'real world' and which
planes were 'exercise'? The answer to this question will provide us with the
name of the individual who ran the operational execution of the 9/11 attack.

Dick
Cheney

Cheney was initially taken by the secret
service to an underground bunker in the White House called the Presidential
Emergency Operations Center.

From there,
according to CNN, Cheney directed the US government's response to the
unfolding attack.

Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta was
in the Presidential Emergency Operating Center with Vice President Cheney as
Flight 77 approached Washington, D.C. On May 23, 2003 in front of the 9/11
Commission, Secretary Mineta testified:

"During the time that the airplane was coming
in to the Pentagon, there was a young man who would come in and say to the
Vice President, "The plane is 50 miles out." "The plane is 30 miles out." And
when it got down to "the plane is 10 miles out," the young man also said to
the Vice President, "Do the orders still stand?" And the Vice President turned
and whipped his neck around and said, "Of course the orders still stand. Have
you heard anything to the contrary?"

As the plane in question hit the Pentagon,
what else can we conclude but that the 'order' was not to shoot down
the aircraft and to let it find its target.

Mineta stated that he did not know what the
'order' was because he wasn't there when it was made.

Site R, a highly secure complex of buildings
inside Raven Rock Mountain near Blue Ridge Summit, Pa., close to the
Maryland-Pennsylvania state line and about seven miles north of Camp David, is
a 53-year-old facility conceived at the start of the Cold War as an alternate
command center in the event of nuclear war or an attack on Washington.

The bunker is built into a mountain hillside
and is virtually camouflaged to the naked eye. The location betrays itself by
the vast gaggle of satellites, microwave towers and antennae that festoon the
perimeter. Inside the facility there are computer filled caverns and
communication and tracking technology that would put a James Bond movie to
shame.

The entire facility
is guarded by heavily armed military police.

Within hours of 9/11 unfolding, five choppers
had landed on the facility's helipad and top officials such as Paul Wolfowitz
were ushered in to join Cheney in the command bunker.

Site R - also known as Raven Rock or the
Alternate Joint Communications Center is from where vice-President Dick Cheney
ran the aftermath of the 9/11 attack. Cheney's command superceded the orders
of the Pentagon, the FAA or the White House. He is the number one suspect in
the murder of nearly 3,000 innocent people.

In May of 2001, by presidential order, Cheney
was handed direct control of all wargame and drill operations. This meant he
was solely in charge of the overlapping NORAD drills and wargames on the
morning of 9/11, that prevented Standard Operating Procedure from being
implemented, and any of the hijacked planes being intercepted.

The smoking guns of 9/11 are no longer
disparate jigsaw pieces that serve to just raise more questions than they
answer. We now have a coherent and plausible explanation of how the events
unfolded, why there was no air defense response, and a prime suspect as to who
executed these actions. The facts fit this version of events.

The 9/11 truth movement has just taken a
giant leap towards dismantling the lies of September 11and finally offering
justice for those who lost their lives on that terrible day.

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FURTHER DOCUMENTATION

Thanks to the great researchers who have also
highlighted the wargames information. The following links will provide you
with more information.